Neil Diamond - Solitary Man

Possibly a guilty pleasure but I love everything about the original 1966 recording of this song.

Melinda was mine
'Til the time
That I found her
Holding Jim
Loving him

Then Sue came along
Loved me strong
That's what I thought
Me and Sue
That died too

Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
A girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man

I've had it to here
Bein' where
Love's a small world
Part-time thing
Paper ring

I know it's been done
Havin' one
Girl who loves you
Right or wrong
We go strong

Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man

Wonderful.

Keep Love Alive Mix - Best of 2010

A compilation of my favorite tunes from 2010, enjoy.

1. Sophie Zelmani - If I Could (Version Lindbæk)
2. Seu Jorge and Almaz - Cirandar
3. Kasper Bjorke - Heaven (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
4. Lindstrom and Christabelle - Love Sick
5. Rodion - Alagos Cowboys
6. Tiago - Motorcycles (Neville Watson mix)
7. Moodymann - It's 2 Late 4 U and Me
8. David August - Music is the Place To Be
9. Midnight Magic - Beam me up (Jacques Renault mix)
10. Ooft! - Umbilical Chord (Ooft! Dub)
11. Duckbeats - Repeat Prescription
12. Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant

Keep Love Alive Mix - Summer of Love 2010

A bit late but its been a busy summer. Inspired amongst other things by the impending wedding of my little bro, here is a mix of lurve songs that takes you from the surprisingly good soft rock of ONJ and Fleetwood Mac into funky balearic beats through disco and ending on a jazzy tip, phew! Everyone a winner IMHO. Congratulations Chas and Emma! Here is the tracklisting:

1. Olivia Newton John - Love Song
2. Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes
3. Max Berlin's - Elle et Moi
4. Rob - Make it Fast, Make it Slow (Gerd edit)
5. Patti Austin - Body Language
6. Barbra Streisand - Promises
7. Tony Orlando - Don't Let Go
8. Demis Roussos - I Dig You
9. Main Ingredient - Everything Man
10. Henry Mancini - Love's Theme/TSOP
11. FBI - Talking About Love
12. Benitez - We Are The One

Mr. Fingers - What About This Love

Timeless, mellow music from the legend Larry Heard. Simply beautiful, an end of night favourite.

Meanderthals - Andromeda (Idjut Boys mix)

What do you get when you cross the UK's finest proponenets of deep and laid back electronic sounds ...

... with one of Norway's finest proponents of deep and laid back electronic sounds?

You guessed it.

Dan and Conrad team up with Rune (see previous post) for an album as the Meanderthals and what you get is all pretty chilled. This remix is hardly uptempo but there's something about the heavy drums and tribal sounding percussion that reminds me of Soul II Soul at the Africa Centre (circa 1986??) So classic sounding dance music that deserves to be rumbling on a big sound system stack somewhere this summer. Buy it here

Rune Lindbaek - Bonat Synthesiser

Rune is a leading light of the Norwegian nu-balearic-cosmic-call it whatever scene, though apperas to be much less prolific than fellow Scandinavians such as Lindstrom, who is a collaborator here. A collection of brilliantly wonky, wierd, squelchy nu-balearic-cosmic-sounds where even the most 'up' moment on 'Nautilus' is still pretty laid back. Check it here

Linda di Franco - My Boss

Speaking of Linda Franco, here she is performing 'My Boss' live on Italian television supported by the Invisible Man Band, doing that classic "knock knees" dance from the 80s and delivering the brilliant lyrics "My boss has taken all my heart and now he's tearing it apart..."

Discossession - TV Scene

A rare, new vinyl addition to the Keep Love Alive collection. Here is a version of Linda Di Franco's Balearic fave 'TV Scene' released in Japan by Discossession. Featuring a great Soft Rocks remix (thanks Piers!) and the blissful, floaty 'Celestial Mix'. Copies of the expensive Japanese import seem to have disappeared from the UK stores so buy it online at Jet Set records in Japan.

William Shatner - Rocket Man

Mad version of Elton John's ode to getting high, recorded live on TV by William Shatner